Wild One Does Not Favor the Flashes Saturday Night

Saturday, May 3

Kent, Ohio

6:00 PM

Kent State University

29-17, 13-7

Northern Illinois University

15-31, 9-11

Northern Illinois

Kent State

Photo by: David Dermer

Wild One Does Not Favor the Flashes Saturday Night

5/3/2014 9:34:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

KENT, Ohio – Errors, miscues, arguments, injuries and a game-ending play at the plate all came in to play Saturday night in Kent State's game versus Northern Illinois.

After the Huskies took broke a 5-5 tie with a run in the 9^th, the Golden Flashes responded to put runners on, but the tying run was called out when Curtis Olvey singled up the middle and Sawyer Polen was called out on a close play at home to end the game and hand Kent State a 6-5 loss.

"It was a wild game today, just one of those games," Head Coach Jeff Duncan said. "We had a little bit of a miscommunication on defense that cost us
, and our at-bats weren't great throughout the whole game."

Kent State started things off with a run in the 1^st when Alex Miklos singled, stole second, advanced on a wild pitch and then scored on a Cody Koch groundout. Northern Illinois answered right back with an inside-the-park homerun in the next inning on a play where Miklos was injured and had to be removed from the game.

The Huskies put up a four-spot in the 2^nd on a single and big three-run homerun to right field.

The Golden Flashes worked their way back in it with a big four-run inning of their own in the 6^th. Jacob Neuschaefer led off with a double then Zarley Zalewski reached on an error. Justin Wagler followed with a single to score on before T.J. Sutton answered with another single. Later in the inning, Polen also grabbed a base hit to clear the bases and make it a 5-5 game before the decisive 9^th inning.

Nick Jensen-Clagg worked out of trouble and found his groove in the starting role. He went six innings with seven hits, four earned runs and six strikeouts. He did not allow a free pass in the game. Michael Clark followed him with 1.2 shutout innings with one hit, one walk and two strikeouts. Eric Dorsch suffered the loss in the final 1.1 innings with two hits, one run and two strikeouts.

Northern Illinois' starter Eli Anderson pitched a complete game, throwing 142 pitched while allowing two earned runs, walking one and striking out 11.

"We have to get past this game and look at being just a little bit better tomorrow," Duncan said. "We still have a chance to win this series."

The rubber match between Kent State and Northern Illinois is set for Sunday afternoon at 1:00pm.